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Full History - 2020 - 10 - 07 - ID#j760ol

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Any real time OCR software on windows? (self.Blind)

submitted by peggy2033

What I mean by real time OCR programs is on android there’s an option called select to speak where if you drag your finger it’ll read stuff in real time out loud to you if it’s across an image or real text within the operating system. Is there any programs like this on windows also sorry if this isn’t the correct area to ask questions like this.

Amonwilde 2 points 2y ago

I have this by combining Capture2Text and TextAloud. Set Capture2Text to send OCR to the clipboard and TextAloud to read anything added to the clipboard. Voila.

PositionOrnery 1 points 2y ago

Actually there are many OCR programs you can use but luckily right now the $1 that I had been using right now is having $1 which is very affordable and reasonable. The software is very efficient and useful for all users to $1 or $1 or other documents too.

RJHand 1 points 2y ago

I only know of one for mac, although NVDA has pretty quick OCR capabilities, and jaws probably now so given the stuff in windows 10. Though its been years since I've touched a windows computer. I may run a vm to test some things though, I'm curious about this now too.

CloudyBeep 1 points 2y ago

JAWS has had OCR capabilities since 2011.

RJHand 2 points 2y ago

Oh, it has? Damn guess I never really took advantage of that, ah well.

CloudyBeep 2 points 2y ago

And machine-generated image descriptions since March 2019.

CloudyBeep 1 points 2y ago

Not to my knowledge, probably because something like this would use quite a lot of power that might be better allocated elsewhere if it was always on.

bjayernaeiy 1 points 2y ago

The screen reader NVDA has a built in image recognition that can recognise a text within an image when you press the NVDA key + 'r'. As to text, it's simply the job of the screen reader to read it out. Are you familiar with screen readers?

peggy2033 [OP] 1 points 2y ago

This is mostly perfect, thank you

peggy2033 [OP] 1 points 2y ago

I use the screen your daily I just wanted a little extra, I didn’t know I could do that so I’ll try it out.

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